OBJECTIVE To assess the role of HLA polymorphism in the susceptibility to tuberculosis in Syria. METHODS We used the polymerase chain reaction with sequence specific primer method to study the DRB1* locus in 147 Syrian patients with positive sputum smear or sputum culture for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis strains, and 209 Syrian healthy matching individuals with negative tuberculin skin test. Pa...

The purpose of this study was to determine the atropine and scopolamine content in different parts of Datura plant, (Datura metel L.), growing wild in Syria. These alkaloids were separated and quantified by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with diode-array detector (DAD), and fluorescence detector (FLD), using a reversed phase Eclipse C18 column and employing a mixture of w...

Since the introduction of fiber optic gyroscope in the late 1970’s 1, the need for accurate inertial navigational instruments has driven the evolution of the device into complex open or closed loop designs manufactured with expensive polarization maintaining fibers and fused fiber optic elements. Our goal herein is to describe a novel fiber optic Sagnac interferometer design made with readily a...

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